Steller's sea cow

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The nearly complete skeleton of a Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) – it is missing bones from the wrist and hand. From Woodward, 1885. It did not take long for the last remaining population of Steller’s sea cow to be driven into extinction. Discovered by the German naturalist Georg Steller around the Bering Sea’s Commander…